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Description: Everything tagged 1950s
Based on tag: 1950s

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1

The Fellowship of the Ring

by J. R. R. Tolkien

55,096 members

490 reviews

½ 4.4

7 Members: eromsted, mmignano11, merrystar, cej1027, ahef1963, raperper, ManWithAnAgenda

2

by Ray Bradbury

54,275 members

1,006 reviews

4

7 Members: DorsVenabili, merrystar, souloftherose, Bretzky1, cej1027, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

3

The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe

46,115 members

769 reviews

4.1

7 Members: eromsted, mmignano11, merrystar, cej1027, ahef1963, raperper, ManWithAnAgenda

4

The Catcher in the Rye

by J. D. Salinger

69,852 members

1,086 reviews

3.8

7 Members: eromsted, mmignano11, merrystar, Bretzky1, cej1027, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda,raperper

5

by J. R. R. Tolkien

48,737 members

310 reviews

½ 4.4

6 Members: mmignano11, merrystar, cej1027, ahef1963, raperper, ManWithAnAgenda

6

The Return of the King

by J. R. R. Tolkien

47,104 members

285 reviews

½ 4.5

6 Members: mmignano11, merrystar, cej1027, ahef1963, raperper, ManWithAnAgenda

7

Things Fall Apart

by Chinua Achebe

20,815 members

435 reviews

3.8

6 Members: eromsted, DorsVenabili, Bretzky1, cej1027, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

8

Horton Hears a Who!

6,404 members

128 reviews

4.2

6 Members: eromsted, mmignano11, merrystar, cej1027, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

9

A Bear Called Paddington

by Michael Bond

4,160 members

70 reviews

4.1

6 Members: eromsted, thorold, merrystar, cej1027, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

10

Go Tell It on the Mountain

by James Baldwin

5,803 members

112 reviews

3.9

5 Members: eromsted, thorold, aulsmith, DorsVenabili, ManWithAnAgenda

11

Giovanni's Room

by James Baldwin

5,595 members

126 reviews

4.2

5 Members: eromsted, thorold, aulsmith, DorsVenabili, ManWithAnAgenda

12

Lord of the Flies

by William Golding

49,929 members

749 reviews

½ 3.7

4 Members: eromsted, aulsmith, mmignano11, ahef1963

13

The Magician's Nephew

29,607 members

366 reviews

3.9

4 Members: merrystar, cej1027, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

14

26,728 members

240 reviews

3.9

4 Members: merrystar, cej1027, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

15

The Horse and His Boy

25,782 members

244 reviews

3.9

4 Members: merrystar, cej1027, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

16

The Voyage of the Dawn Treader

25,654 members

259 reviews

4

4 Members: merrystar, cej1027, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

17

The Silver Chair

24,146 members

197 reviews

3.9

4 Members: merrystar, cej1027, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

18

The Last Battle

23,495 members

194 reviews

3.9

4 Members: merrystar, cej1027, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

19

by Isaac Asimov

20,692 members

392 reviews

4

4 Members: eromsted, merrystar, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

20

A Separate Peace

by John Knowles

12,831 members

191 reviews

½ 3.6

4 Members: eromsted, mmignano11, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

21

Our Man in Havana

by Graham Greene

5,387 members

140 reviews

3.9

4 Members: eromsted, thorold, Bretzky1, ahef1963

22

by Jack Kerouac

28,027 members

387 reviews

½ 3.6

3 Members: aulsmith, Bretzky1, ahef1963

23

The Haunting of Hill House

by Shirley Jackson

9,863 members

433 reviews

3.9

3 Members: mmignano11, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

24

The Day of the Triffids

by John Wyndham

7,514 members

207 reviews

4

3 Members: DorsVenabili, souloftherose, ahef1963

25

Howl and Other Poems

by Allen Ginsberg

5,602 members

67 reviews

4

3 Members: eromsted, aulsmith, ManWithAnAgenda

26

by Vladimir Nabokov

31,849 members

565 reviews

4.1

2 Members: Bretzky1, ManWithAnAgenda

27

by Truman Capote

23,878 members

467 reviews

4.1

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

28

by John Steinbeck

23,550 members

425 reviews

½ 4.4

2 Members: eromsted, mmignano11

29

The Martian Chronicles

by Ray Bradbury

16,732 members

325 reviews

4

2 Members: merrystar, Bretzky1

30

Waiting for Godot: A Tragicomedy in Two Acts

by Samuel Beckett

13,014 members

161 reviews

3.9

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

31

by J. D. Salinger

11,804 members

112 reviews

4.1

2 Members: eromsted, ManWithAnAgenda

32

8,534 members

126 reviews

3.9

2 Members: merrystar, ManWithAnAgenda

33

by Günter Grass

7,623 members

93 reviews

4

2 Members: eromsted, thorold

34

Beezus and Ramona

by Beverly Cleary

6,861 members

113 reviews

3.9

2 Members: cej1027, ManWithAnAgenda

35

The End of the Affair

by Graham Greene

6,571 members

172 reviews

3.9

2 Members: merrystar, ManWithAnAgenda

36

The Talented Mr. Ripley

by Patricia Highsmith

6,252 members

199 reviews

3.9

2 Members: thorold, ahef1963

37

by Kingsley Amis

5,826 members

155 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: thorold, ahef1963

38

Memoirs of Hadrian

by Marguerite Yourcenar

5,497 members

125 reviews

4.1

2 Members: aulsmith, ManWithAnAgenda

39

The Long Goodbye

by Raymond Chandler

5,249 members

114 reviews

4.2

2 Members: merrystar, ManWithAnAgenda

40

The Adventures of Augie March

3,872 members

73 reviews

3.8

2 Members: eromsted, DorsVenabili

41

Three Novels: Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnamable

by Samuel Beckett

3,055 members

28 reviews

4.2

2 Members: eromsted, ahef1963

42

by John Steinbeck

2,867 members

46 reviews

4

2 Members: eromsted, ManWithAnAgenda

43

Excellent Women

2,756 members

126 reviews

4

2 Members: thorold, merrystar

44

The King Must Die

by Mary Renault

2,690 members

55 reviews

3.9

2 Members: thorold, aulsmith

45

2,592 members

41 reviews

½ 3.5

2 Members: eromsted, Bretzky1

46

One Hundred and One Dalmatians

2,411 members

50 reviews

4

2 Members: cej1027, ManWithAnAgenda

47

by Iris Murdoch

2,044 members

49 reviews

3.8

2 Members: thorold, DorsVenabili

48

Notes of a Native Son

by James Baldwin

2,037 members

30 reviews

4.2

2 Members: aulsmith, DorsVenabili

49

The Penguin Book of Contemporary Verse

by Kenneth Allott

266 members

3 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: thorold, ahef1963

50

27,819 members

576 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

51

22,534 members

398 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: Bretzky1

52

by Ralph Ellison

16,270 members

212 reviews

4

Member: Bretzky1

53

The Crucible: A Play in Four Acts

by Arthur Miller

15,440 members

160 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: eromsted

54

by Isaac Asimov

15,114 members

271 reviews

4

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

55

Foundation and Empire

by Isaac Asimov

13,105 members

157 reviews

4

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

56

Death of a Salesman

by Arthur Miller

12,273 members

116 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

57

Second Foundation

by Isaac Asimov

12,069 members

133 reviews

4

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

58

My Side of the Mountain

by Jean Craighead George

12,005 members

148 reviews

4

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

59

The Sirens of Titan

by Kurt Vonnegut

10,453 members

127 reviews

4

Member: eromsted

60

The Quiet American

by Graham Greene

8,076 members

181 reviews

4

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

61

Harold and the Purple Crayon

by Crockett Johnson

7,874 members

213 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

62

by Ray Bradbury

7,577 members

191 reviews

4

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

63

by Kurt Vonnegut

6,861 members

81 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: eromsted

64

Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour: An Introduction

by J. D. Salinger

6,065 members

58 reviews

4

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

65

A Raisin in the Sun

by Lorraine Hansberry

5,535 members

79 reviews

3.8

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

66

A Murder Is Announced

by Agatha Christie

4,712 members

93 reviews

3.8

Member: merrystar

67

4.50 from Paddington

by Agatha Christie

4,667 members

104 reviews

3.8

Member: merrystar

68

Naked Lunch: The Restored Text

by William S. Burroughs

4,310 members

57 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: eromsted

69

A Good Man Is Hard to Find and Other Stories

by Flannery O'Connor

4,101 members

98 reviews

4.1

Member: mmignano11

70

A Town Like Alice

3,768 members

140 reviews

4.1

Member: merrystar

71

Pebble in the Sky

by Isaac Asimov

3,729 members

63 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: eromsted

72

A Pocket Full of Rye

by Agatha Christie

3,706 members

70 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: merrystar

73

The Lottery and Other Stories

by Shirley Jackson

3,672 members

93 reviews

4

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

74

The Origins of Totalitarianism

by Hannah Arendt

3,631 members

36 reviews

4.2

Member: eromsted

75

Murder with Mirrors

by Agatha Christie

3,429 members

69 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: merrystar

76

Bonjour Tristesse

by Françoise Sagan

3,371 members

110 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: thorold

77

by Cynthia Kadohata

3,108 members

144 reviews

3.8

Member: cej1027

78

The Wheel on the School

by Meindert DeJong

2,966 members

35 reviews

4

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

79

by Naguib Mahfouz

2,802 members

61 reviews

4

Member: eromsted

80

by Elizabeth Enright

2,537 members

32 reviews

4.1

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

81

Tom's Midnight Garden

by Philippa Pearce

2,492 members

41 reviews

4.1

Member: merrystar

82

The Ballad of the Sad Café and Other Stories

by Carson McCullers

2,488 members

56 reviews

3.9

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

83

Black Skin, White Masks

by Frantz Fanon

2,431 members

18 reviews

4.1

Member: eromsted

84

The Recognitions

by William Gaddis

2,231 members

36 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: eromsted

85

The Grass Is Singing

by Doris Lessing

2,211 members

73 reviews

3.9

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

86

The Masks of God: Primitive Mythology

by Joseph Campbell

2,148 members

23 reviews

4

Member: eromsted

87

A Coney Island of the Mind

by Lawrence Ferlinghetti

1,899 members

31 reviews

4.1

Member: eromsted

88

by Raymond Chandler

1,835 members

30 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

89

by August Wilson

1,829 members

18 reviews

3.8

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

90

Auntie Mame: An Irreverent Escapade

by Patrick Dennis

1,828 members

58 reviews

4

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

91

The Judge and His Hangman

by Friedrich Dürrenmatt

1,739 members

22 reviews

3.8

Member: thorold

92

by Muriel Spark

1,738 members

65 reviews

3.8

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

93

Zazie in the Metro

by Raymond Queneau

1,692 members

31 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: thorold

94

by Grace Metalious

1,691 members

39 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

95

The Last of the Wine

by Mary Renault

1,676 members

25 reviews

4.1

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

96

Nine Coaches Waiting

by Mary Stewart

1,621 members

47 reviews

4

Member: merrystar

97

by William Golding

1,522 members

46 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

98

Mary Poppins in the Park

by P. L. Travers

1,448 members

7 reviews

4.1

Member: merrystar

99

The Dying Earth

1,446 members

35 reviews

3.8

Member: aulsmith

100

by Patrick White

1,425 members

22 reviews

4

Member: thorold

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Started: sturlington
March 2012
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